Trader Joe's Druid Circles Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

I admit it--I'm a sucker for Trader Joe's peculiar product names. My mindset these days, what with a daily blog to put out and all, is to buy anything at TJ's that even remotely interests me, and a quirky, out-of-left-field product name is one easy way to spark such interest. I saw somebody mention TJ's "Druid Circles" cookies on Twitter, and instantly knew that I had to find out what they were. I did, after all, just last year finally see the mother of all druid circles.* (See photos on my other blog, here.)

I had trouble finding these at the store. I wandered up and down the cookie aisle several times before finally surrendering and asking at the information desk. The guy there escorted me to the display of fresh-baked goods, which is in a different part of the store from the boxed cookies. He said that the fresh-baked varieties come in new every day, unlike the boxed ones. Well, alrighty then!

There's no difficulty telling that these differ fundamentally from boxed cookies--far more moist and chewy. How do they taste? Pretty good.

However. Over the past year I have been spoiled by having found a local neighborhood bakery--Geraldine's--that makes the most fabulous oatmeal-raisin cookies it has ever been my pleasure to devour. TJ's just has no prayer of competing with them, no matter what they do. It is probably unfair to expect them to.

So I guess I would say that the Druids have here produced one of the best mass-marketed oatmeal-raisin cookies I've had, but I won't be buying them again, because a mile up the road I can get something far, far better.

Sorry, Trader Joe's.

Will I buy it again? 

No.



*Yes, I know that the old theory about Druids building Stonehenge was discredited long ago. But it's not really any fun talking about neolithics, is it? Would you buy cookies called "Neolithic Circle Cookies"? No, of course you wouldn't. They sound gross. Druids are infinitely more fun than neolithics.